Apple Dictionary Parser

Apple Dictionary Parser is a command line tool and a library to parse and analyze MacOS's built-in dictionary files.

Currently only "New Oxford American Dictionary" is supported.

Installation

$ go install github.com/DQNEO/apple-dictionary-parser@latest

The command line tool apple-dictionary-parser will be installed in your $GOPATH/bin directory.

Usage

Export dictionary contents in raw format

$ apple-dictionary-parser dump

This dump subcommand automatically finds the location of the dictionary file in your MacOS, and extract the binary content into a raw dump file (/tmp/noad.cache).

The format of the dump file is TSV (tab separated values), each line representing a word with definition.

<world title>\t<definition of the word in XML>\n

If you are just interested in the raw contents of the dictionary and want to process the data on your own, this will be all you want.

Export dictionary contents into a text file

$ apple-dictionary-parser text > /tmp/all-words.txt

Export dictionary contents into a json file

$ apple-dictionary-parser json > /tmp/all-words.json

Export dictionary contents into a HTML file

$ apple-dictionary-parser html > /tmp/all-words.html

Export dictionary contents into alphabetically separated HTML files

$ apple-dictionary-parser html-split --out-dir /tmp/

This generates a.html, b.html, ..., z.html files in a given directory.

Useful options to filter words

If you want to filter words to extract, you can use filtering options such as --words or --words-file

$ apple-dictionary-parser text --words=--words=happiness,joy,pleasure

$ apple-dictionary-parser html --words-file=your-words.txt

These filtering options are applicable to most of subcommands.

Analyze etymology data

$ apple-dictionary-parser etym /tmp/

This analyzes etymology graph and make outputs in various formats (yaml, html)

Show phonetics information

$ apple-dictionary-parser phonetics

License

MIT

Author

@DQNEO